No | List of activities included in interventions/studies |
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01 | Oral health education sessions for children [8, 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49] |
02 | Oral health education sessions for parents [27, 28, 30, 32, 33] |
03 | Integration of activities into the school curriculum [8, 28, 31, 33, 34, 50, 36] |
04 | Training for those delivering the program [8, 27, 28, 31,32,33, 50, 51, 45,46,47, 50,51,52] and follow up training for reinforcement [8, 27] |
05 | Provision and use of educational materials to children such as charts, posters, pictures, games, models and audio-visual aids [8, 9, 27, 29, 30, 32,33,34, 51, 40,41,42,43,44,45, 44, 45] |
06 | Demonstration of oral health self-care [27, 31, 34, 38, 40, 44,45,46] |
07 | Provision and use of instruction manuals [8, 31, 33, 46,47,48, 48] |
08 | Oral examination, informing parents [9, 25, 32, 34, 37, 43] and offer of free treatment [37] |
09 | Provision of fluoride toothpaste [9, 33, 34, 52] and tooth brush [28, 34] |
10 | Provision of fluoride mouth rinse [38, 45] and fluoride gel [38] |
11 | |
12 | Supervised tooth brushing [23, 24, 27, 31, 50, 52, 38, 39] and flossing [39], and brush with disclosed plaque visualization [22] |
13 | |
14 | Peer health education, supervision of toothbrushing and training of children [36] |
15 | Provision of sugar free chewing gum [27] |
16 | Knowledge contests on oral health knowledge, painting oral health situations, brushing teeth, and public speaking [9, 29, 30, 36] |
17 | Provision of preventive and curative care including sealing pits and fissures, removal of calculus, restoring cavities, emergency care, treating pulpally involved teeth, and zinc supplementation [9, 25, 26, 50, 52] |
18 | Provision of take-home materials such as brush charts, parent educational flyers and calendars [30, 33, 43, 53, 48] |
19 | Use of mass media to provide information about the project activities [31, 50, 52] |
20 | Attending annual conferences [39] and national convention and exhibition [36] |
21 | Action planning exercises, rate how confident they were and identify barriers to dental flossing [35] |
22 | |
23 | Children formulate a proposition of, ways to overcome obstacles and formulate goals to brush three times a day [44] |
24 | Demonstration and practice on how to make a chew stick [46] |